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New Trade Agreements Gut Environmental Protections
July 18, 2014 —
Deals affecting U.S. neighbors to the east and west make the case that corporations are countries, too.
Raillan Brooks is a former assistant editor at Audubon and current editor at The Huffington Post. Follow him on Twitter at @raillan_ebrooks.